How to Contain the Threat of Russia, and Jack Handey on the Mysteries of Humor

Senator Mark Warner is the vice-chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is trying to explore the possibility of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign without causing a partisan blowup. Warner fears that, with Russia, we’re confronting twenty-first-century threats with twentieth-century tools. Simon Parkin reports on how military officers and diplomats use a board game to model the complexity of world events. A poet tells the stories of women who have survived the nightmare of the Islamic State. And, finally, the humorist Jack Handey asks the questions that have been baffling humorists since the beginning of time: What’s funny, and why?